The price of admission how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges--and who gets left outside the gates
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Three Rivers Press
c2007.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. ed |
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991004308599708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the Tennessee waltz
- How the "z-list" makes the a-list : Harvard's payback for big donors
- Recruiting the rich : development admits at Duke
- The fame factor : celebrity children at Brown
- Enduring legacies : Notre Dame's other tradition
- Title IX and the rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships
- A break for faculty brats : free and easy entry for the children of professors
- The new Jews : Asian Americans need not apply
- The legacy establishment : taking on Congress and the higher education lobby
- The challenge of wealth-blind admissions : how Caltech raises standards--and donations
- Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform.
